Hello Cuties! How good it is to be here with my friends!
I decided to start another post, because I had a few pictures and also so you wouldn’t have to go through already read comments and post. If you haven’t read the first , link is below.
I called to check on hubby’s sister and 84 yr old husband. They were ok but when we were talking I told him this. The reporters were saying the eye was disorganized so it would be very little behind it. Well after an hour of total silence were knew we had been in the eye so we went to bed at 11pm.
At 2 am I was awakened by my bedrooms walls popping, sounding like they were cracking. Then it felt like our roof was lifting. I don’t know if I imagined it because I wasn’t fully awake or because the winds and gust were so strong. I told BIL I didn’t think it was suppose to be anything after the eye according to reporters. He said They Lied!😉😳 we didn’t get much rain with the winds but the backside was worse as far as winds than the front. The front of the eye gave us most of the water.
Here’s my front yard when we first started getting rain Friday morning- we got rain Thursday too about 4 inches- not bad at my house. Hubby always parks our vehicles away from the house and large trees. We’ve seen where people have lost their vehicles along with their house when they stay in carport or garage.😩can you see the large tree that blew down at my neighbors?pic #5 and 6 morning after storm. Look in 6 pic at tree tops. They have been permanently swayed from hurricanes before.
The other pictures are places nearby. 8&9 are pictures of young couples house and garage who used to babysit Nora.
#10 Four lane highway closed for miles
11 is the road I take to my traveling niece’s house, Eraine. She took this picture from her side of bridge. (There is a bridge in there😳) We rode late yesterday afternoon thinking the water may have gone down but there are curves before we get to the bridge. My husband was going slow. Even though we knew the bridge was further up. We started around a curve and we were in water! The thing Eraine and both of us couldn’t understand there were no blockades, no road closure signs! We were expecting it and still were into it before we realized. What about those that didn’t realize?😳 we both tried to call DOT she is in one parish, me the other as bridge is the parish or county line. All we got is fast busy signals as I’m sure landline phones were out.
Thank you for the update and all the pictures.
I asked my daughter about Adam and Jen who live in Creole. Creole took the direct hit by Delta coming onshore there. She told me They had evacuated to Texas for Delta. They were still awaiting insurance from Laura so had not even started to rebuild. Adam had taken pictures of mud in their house up to top of washing machine. Nothing salvageable😩
I figured we would be ok with water because we have fairly good drainage and not near a creek or waterway. We got 14 inches! The wind was the real threat. I did not sleep after I woke up at 2 am until winds seemed better between 4 and 5 am.
One of our nieces Sheila, told me when Laura came through 6 weeks ago, her husband went to bed. She said she heard the tornado coming and ran and woke her husband. She said by the time she got him awake he asked her, what did she want him to do about it, she said it was over. The next morning they had a strip through their property where trees were down and a top broke out of a big tree in the yard. She said she had heard it cracking but at the time wasn't sure what it was or where it was.
I told her my dad and I slept through hurricane Audrey and it put a tree on our house! I was young but he was like Sheila's husband, there is not a darn thing you can do to stop it.
We were under voluntary evacuation. Parishes or counties below us were Mandatory evacuation. I believe if anything good came out of Katrina & Rita is that people take evacuation orders seriously. No material possession is worth losing your life or the lives of your family. There is not a thing you can do to stop it from taking your home & your life if you stay. Even though there was a mass exodus from Katrina too many stayed and too many lives were lost.
Power is on in some places. Those still underwater or trees on lines don’t have any until water goes down and trees removed. All of my immediate family have power. Eraine, my travel niece, my sister, a nephew and BIL are are still without power, though.
Thank you for the interesting pictures.